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Travel Films Week: Let’s Keep Goin': On Horror, Magic, Female Friendship &...
This guest post by Marisa Crawford previously appeared at Delirious Hem as part of their CHICK FLIX series and is cross-posted with permission. Geena Davis as Thelma and Susan Sarandon as Louise When...
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Where Have You Gone, Sarah Connor?
Remember Linda Hamilton (playing Sarah Connor) and her guns in Terminator 2? This guest post by Holly Derr is cross-posted with permission from The Ms. Magazine Blog. Summer always makes me a bit...
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Women in Sports Week: Five Reasons Why ‘A League of Their Own’ is “Feminism:...
Dottie performs a catch while doing the splits. Written by Myrna Waldron. When one thinks of films featuring women in sports, A League of Their Own is probably the first title that comes to mind. It’s...
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Bitch Flicks’ Weekly Picks
Wrinkle-Washed: Female Faces in Film Marketing by Lisa Wade at Sociological ImagesCalming the Controversy: “After Tiller” Directors Lana Wilson and Martha Shane Discuss the Complexities of Late-Term...
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Women Writers Week: Table of Contents at RogerEbert.com 10 Best Female-Centric Biopics by Nina K. Guzman at Bust Mapping the Margins of Middle Earth by Camille Owens at Bitch Media Watch ‘Adama’ –...
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How ‘Frozen’ Fails Where ‘Catching Fire’ Succeeds
Catching Fire sisters This is a guest post by Caroline Siede. While this will probably be remembered as the “Winter Of The Polar Vortex,” it’s also fair to call it the “Winter Of The Feminist...
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Agency and Gendered Violence in ‘Thelma and Louise’
Written by Jenny Lapekas as part of our theme week on Rape Revenge Fantasies. The rape revenge subgenre, typically within the horror realm, is a topic I’ve thought about a lot. Rape revenge offers...
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We’re All for One, We’re One for All in ‘A League of Their Own’
This guest post by Rhianna Shaheen appears as part of our theme week on Female Friendship. I’ve seen quite a few female friendships on screen that I’ve liked, but I never get tired of A League of...
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20 Facts Everyone Should Know About Gender Bias in Movies
This guest post by Soraya Chemaly previously appeared at The Huffington Post and is cross-posted with permission. A new study, Gender Bias Without Borders, was released by the Geena Davis Institute...
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Bitch Flicks’ Weekly Picks
The Many Truths of “Selma” by Zillah Eisenstein at Ms. blog The Melissa Harris-Perry Syllabus 1.11.15 at msnbc The ‘Selma’ “Controversy” Isn’t About History; It’s About Oscars by Jason Bailey at...
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‘Thelma and Louise’: Redefining the Female Gaze
This guest post by Paulette Reynolds appears as part of our theme week on The Female Gaze. “…the awareness of any object can induce an awareness of also being an object.” –Jacques Lacan When...
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‘A League of their Own’: The Joy and Complexity of Sisterhood on a Baseball...
This guest post written by Jessica Quiroli appears as part of our theme week on Sisterhood. It only takes a few minutes into A League of Their Own that we learn what drives the Keller sisters, Dottie...
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Sisterhood and Salvation in ‘A League of Their Own’
This guest post written by Katie Barnett appears as part of our theme week on Sisterhood. Early in Penny Marshall’s A League of Their Own (1992), Marla Hooch (Megan Cavanagh) is coaxed by her father...
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